A little Guatemalan boy with a hot haircut was left in an Indiana Wal-Mart by his mother, along with a hand-written note stating she could not afford to care for him and a little backpack with his belongings. OMG,...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Indian rights activist Rigoberta Menchu spoke out against a Guatemalan high court decision not to arrest or extradite former military officers accused of committing acts of genocide, torture and terrorism during Guatemala’s civil war....

Legislators in Guatemala have agreed to a new law that would place stricter regulations on adoptions. However, the law won’t affect those couples, mostly American, who have already been matched with an alternative source of fuel their new bundles...

Guatemalan chicken chain Pollo Campero is set to open up restaurants inside Wal-Mart stores, in an effort to appeal to brown consumers who can’t get through an hour or so of shopping without eating: Two restaurants s are scheduled...

Seven-year-old Neidy Elizabeth faces deportation back to her native Guatemala. Her adoptive parents, Cuban-born Joseph Collar and Guatemalan Cathy Collar, are trying to drum up interest in this case so that their daughter won’t be taken from them and...

Meet David Ford of Kansas City. David is one of those performance artists you can’t believe doesn’t get beat up like every single day. Recently he flew his entourage of 24 to Williamsburg, Brooklyn where he created “art” by...

We couldn’t believe our eyes when we came across this little number. Guayabera, (pro-nounced “gwa-yah-[BEAR]-ah”) shirts have been in the United States for many decades now. If you’re a dude, you probably have one already and get tons of...

• U.S. demand is partly to blame for illegal adoption rackets in Guatemala. Hollywood sends Brangelina down there to sort things out. [Time] • The cards on Salma Hayek’s baby shower gifts are made out to “Valentina.” When boys...

In light of the 40 violent deaths involving candidates, activists and political leaders since the Guatemalan campaign for president started this spring, last night’s bullet-free debate was considered a breath of fresh air. The hot air spouted by the...

Hot off the wire, reports are coming in that Mexican authorities have deported 350 of 7,000 illegals after the U.S.-bound train they were on ran out of track in Chiapas. (Not quite the friendliest-sounding state in Mexico.) The American...

The Global Game points us to this trailer for a documentary that’s currently making the festival circuit called “Estrellas de la Línea,” about a group of prostitutes from Guatemala who have banded together to create a football (or soccer...

Thanks in part to some hard-hitting reporting we did the day news broke that Daisy Fuentes’ department store clothing line is produced under sweatshop conditions, the Guatemalan factory accused by the U.S. National Labor Commission of abusing its workers...

Daisy Fuentes was notified by the National Labor Committee that her clothing line distributed by department store Kohl’s uses sweatshop labor. The NLC reports that the Daisy Fuentes blouses are made by workers in Guatemala that earn 25 cents...